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Since when has Apple been dominant in Console Gaming?
The article sounds more like an MS press release than an objective review of the situation.

I'm not a gamer (solitaire and sudoku excepted) or user of any MS product so I don't have any personal axe to grind here.

DAalseth said:

The smartest thing Apple did, and also the most criticized, has been to not use macOS on the iPad. It’s a different device, that needs a different environment and UI. Now I think it could do more, and slowly they are making padOS do more. But if they had just dropped macOS onto the iPad, like Microsoft has done with the Windows on the Surface, it would have languished and died. macOS would not fit on a tablet. The modifications you would need to make it work on a tablet environment would be so extensive that, you’d end up with padOS.

The fact that Apple had the guts to go all in and not try to shoehorn a desktop onto the iPad is to a great extent why it is doing so well.

MacOS would fit on the iPad but that is not the point.
To me, the UI is what makes it different from the Mac.  A UI designed for touch from day 1 rather than grafting touch onto a conventional desktop UI as is the case with Windows.
MS is still faffing around with W11's look and feel. Madness if you ask me.
Like most people, I only use a small part of the PadOS features but it does everything I want from a Tablet. (plays spider solitaire, YouTube Videos, plays my music, and controls my home battery storage). Other people will have a different use case but that's fine. It will do it all.

Maybe it is the old fogey in me but I don't want a touch UI on my Mac unless there is a way to totally disable it.

The removal of the 'Don't be Evil' bit was the signal for me to start 'Don't use Google'.
Still practicing it all these years later.
Google is IMHO, the personification of a company that is rotten to the core. The other usual suspects are not that far behind.

bloggerblog said:

Microsoft is integrating the tech into their next version of Windows. The Copilot demos show how insanely useful this tech can be. This is a turning point in computer history. 46% of code on GitHub is already created by AI, and they just released CoPilot X. VS Code Copilot is already out too. Microsoft is in a situation where if they play their cards right they'll quickly end up on top again. I would never try installing Edge again because it is spyware but it is being adopted fast by others and may bypass Chrome in the coming years. Bard is not up to par with GPT, not even close.

"Microsoft on top again"?
Only until the business users discover just how much of their company-sensitive data is being sent to the ChatGPT controllers.
The year of Linux on the desktop may well be here at last if that happens. Oh... sorry, I should have said...
The year of MacOS on the desktop (sic)

JP234 said:

I have the SE, and it makes and takes phone calls just fine. What do I need with a phone the size of a TV set?

Exactly. I have an SE2 and it does what I want from a phone. 
It:-
Makes calls.
Sends texts
allows me to control my home battery system through an app
control the charging of my EV on various networks.
IT will even take the odd photo when I need it. (I have a Nikon Z7 for real photos)

I don't:-
Watch YouTube
Post on social media
Watch videos of any sort
Do email
The question is then... Why would I need a phone with a bigger screen especially if it won't fit into the phone pocket of my motorcycle jacket?
Naturally, YMMV but for my use case it is perfect.